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The absolute worst film you've ever seen

For me, it was The Last Action Hero with Arnold ... Only movie I've ever walked out of ... ever....
 
Man Of Steel and Superman vs. Batman. I still haven't finished Man Of Steel (I've only made it through the first hour, and then I shut it off), and SvB I kept walking out the room and I was still able to follow the story, even though I was, supposedly, watching the director's cut; SvB didn't need an extended director's cut.
 
Superman vs Batman was an odd one. It felt very superficial as they tried too hard to find a reason for them to fight, when they should have been friends and working together. Lex Luthor didn't feel like Lex at all, but rather like a pale imitation of Joker. Kevin J. Anderson wrote a very interesting novel about that friendship that I would have liked to have seen on screen. Was far more interesting.
 
The most recent I can think of is the new Blade Runner movie. My skin was crawling by the end and I just wanted to leave but I wasn't alone. It's the worst recent movie I've seen that was at least moderately competently made.

If you want to see some actual objective shit you need to check out some of the more obscure offerings on Amazon Prime Video. The stuff where some people took a home camera out into the woods and somehow got Amazon to buy it to fill space in their sparse library. Stuff like this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/video/detail/B075G2LNM5/

I always thought ISHTAR was supposed to be more of a commercial disaster than an artistic one. I've never actually seen it, but I thought it was infamous (like HEAVEN'S GATE and CUTTHROAT ISLAND) more for being a mammoth financial flop than the Worst Movie Ever.
Been a while since I've seen it but I recall it being maybe ahead of its time in that modern humor that comes from the awkwardness of the characters and situation. There's lots of examples now but in 87 it was not your typical comedy.
 
OMG Supernova.. This has to be one of the worst SF films ever. Reportedly so bad even the director walked or something.

A more recent shitty one was Killswitch made in 2017 and shot almost entirely in first person POV.
 
OMG Supernova.. This has to be one of the worst SF films ever. Reportedly so bad even the director walked or something.

SUPERNOVA was a troubled production. Believe it or not, I actually edited a novelization of that movie that never saw print because of various weirdnesses. And I've heard rumors that there was ANOTHER novelization written, for another publisher, that also never saw print . . ..

Never been able to bring myself to watch the final product.
 
SUPERNOVA was a troubled production. Believe it or not, I actually edited a novelization of that movie that never saw print because of various weirdnesses. And I've heard rumors that there was ANOTHER novelization written, for another publisher, that also never saw print . . ..

Never been able to bring myself to watch the final product.


I'd love to know what really happened on that one and why things went so wrong. I've watched the whole film and it's a bit of a mess.
 
Man of Steel. I didn’t care for it.

I’ve never walked out of a movie. To me it would be like wasting food. Even if it’s terrible.
 
Not sure I've ever walked out of a movie, although I've occasionally given up on something I was watching at home.

(Hi there, DRACULA'S DOG and THE TWO FACES OF DR. JEKYLL.)
 
Man of Steel. I didn’t care for it.

I’ve never walked out of a movie. To me it would be like wasting food. Even if it’s terrible.
The only I walked out off was free. On the perks of working in a bookstore was the movie passes from the publisher of adapted novels and tie ins.
 
The only movie where I noticed people walking out was Wild At Heart, and there were a lot of them. "I've never seen anything so disgusting," I heard a woman whisper on her way out. It was around the time of Twin Peaks' maximum buzz, and I think some people thought it would be like that, not prepared for what an R-rated (almost X-rated) David Lynch movie would entail.

The only movie I ever walked out on and got a refund was A Few Good Men, but it was because the sound in the theater kept cutting out and I was missing chunks of dialogue.
 
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